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Jimmy Kimmel Has a Blunt Message for CBS After Colbert Cancellation (latenighter.com)

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[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 34 points 2 months ago

It makes me sad that I canceled Paramount+ a month ago. I wish I had waited until now.

[-] semisimian@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago

There's no wrong time to cancel Paramount+. Even when they had all the Trek content, the UI was dog shit so you could barely play what you wanted to watch anyway. And now that they've made the decision to split their IP, ugh.

I watched the CBS morning show for years. Amongst the morning news, I felt it was the best programming: had long-form investigative reporting, balanced viewpoints, etc. Then they added a shopping segment. Okay, gotta pay the bills. Then they started doing more pop-culture bits, even prompting Nora to ask, in the middle of her prompter read, "is this news?" Then they started to carve out time for at least 1 segment a week for Moriarty to interview a billionaire about their passion projects. And so on. The last straw for me was normalizing Trump's shtick a second time.

Now the only news I watch is the Weather Channel.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

We'll just think of it this way, you gave them one month's less money. That's better right?

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I found this Blast article a lot more informative than the linked write-up. Excerpt:

Kimmel addressed the shocking end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on his Instagram Story, sharing a clip of his friend's confirmation of the news. He captioned the post with a direct message to the network, writing:

"Love you Stephen. F-ck you and all your Sheldons CBS."

Kimmel's words referenced CBS' iconic character Sheldon Cooper, whose life was depicted in two hit series, "The Big Bang Theory" and its spinoff, "Young Sheldon." The TV host appeared to be calling BS on the network's decision to cancel Colbert's talk show while promoting other programs.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Don't forget the Sheldonless spinoff of Young Sheldon. Such and such's first marriage.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Netflix could use a weeknight live talk show.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

That’s actually not a bad idea. Netflix can certainly afford it, though I have to wonder how the audience members would be sourced for such a thing. Streaming seems to working out fine for John Oliver over on…whatever HBO identifies as nowadays.

[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

HBO currently identifies as a sailor, that's why I always seek his contents on the high sea.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

They tried a few, right?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago

I wonder how many people remember the Kimmel got his start on The Man Show, which was like the most misogynistic shit ever on TV. Funny watching him try to take the moral high ground.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Real people grow from their experiences. Chuds wallow in it as a replacement for their personalities.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

What’s a Sheldon? Is he referencing the character from Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon? Why?

[-] JakenVeina@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Seems like a jab at CBS prioritizing those kinds of shows over the largely-more-popular Late Show. Alternatively, maybe making a jab at those being the best that CBS has to offer.